[sbho1]

I am happy to share my new finding ...

This is a potential a good news to 1Z owners who find FW2.0 is too "clinical" and prefer to use back FW1.20 for the more musical sound signature.
I find the below sound setting and steps in FW2.0, will provide a relative attractive musical signature, may be achieve 80% of the FW1.20 musical sound + 70% of the FW2.0 sound characteristic ... I find no noticeable lost in resolution, personally I find it musical enough with good sound quality, no longer has the urge to use back FW1.20.

Pls you all try these below sound setting steps and let us know how do you find , especially those who has the Sony headphone Z1R ....

Step 1 : Go to Direct Source - off , go the manual sound setting.
Step 2 : Select Equalizer (not Tone Control), make sure the adjust setting is all zero - flat (completely no setting for all the frequency spectrum). Never select Tone Control display . . it may degrade the sound resolution even the setting for the base, mid and treble is all at zero scale.
Step 3 : Go to next DSEE-HX screen, click "ON".
Step 4 : Go to next DC Phase Linearlizer, click "ON" and I suggest select Type A -low (other selection may give slightly different base tone).
Step 5: Safe the setting, and make sure follow by reset the player (this is important step to ensure player use the new stepping with the clean setup. In fact every time if you make selection from Direct on to Direct off and vice-verse, you need to reset the player ... .. you will find the sound is not the same with and without reseting the player.

Pls try and share what you think ...

The above mention “Reset” , means to power off and then power on .

 

[sbho1]

The above mention “Reset” , means to power off and then power on .

I like to revise suggestion for the above Step 4, select Type A-STANDARD, it seems quite nice, a feeling base on momory , very identical as FW 1.20 sound stage !

Keen to hear from u all after you try it , how you feel and how you like it .

 

[NaiveSound]

Then what is the point of the comment? We have discussed this to death, if you are not using balanced you are not utilising the dap properly.

I've used balanced with Zeus. Sound is slightly better, but it doesn't give you a new dap by any means

 

[Shmuel]

thanks, Fortis!

 

[nc8000]

I've used balanced with Zeus. Sound is slightly better, but it doesn't give you a new dap by any means

Gives you considerably more power plus a clearly improved black background and tighter control imo. In balanced high gain it had power enough to make HE-6 enjoyable though clearly not driven to their full potential

 

[gerelmx1986]

does it make 1a sound more lean/reference or more musical ?

how does the bass/mids/treble change ?

A bit. More reference, mids stay the same I think, highs a bit more and basically gets reduced a bit, is. More controlled

 

[Matrix Petka]

No, but the sound was rather unimpressive over my note 8 or mojo, so just reporting, but with my cheap akg iem wm1a is great, Zeus XR and Audeze Lcd XC were unimpressive with wm1a

All that seems weird... Trying to understand....
Few questions:
What gear/setup you was listening before?
What kind of music are you listening?
What type of files mainly are you listening?

 

[NaiveSound]

All that seems weird... Trying to understand....
Few questions:
What gear/setup you was listening before?
What kind of music are you listening?
What type of files mainly are you listening?

Mojo to ZeusXR, mojo to lcd xc
All music but country and classical
Flac 24/96 some dsd albums

 

[Whitigir]

Not the first time I hear someone mentioned that Wm1Z or 1A can not compete to S8 or not impressive in comparison.

My friend, he saves money everywhere except going to the casino

One day he came to my house, and he asked me about my golden Walkman. He didn’t even know Walkman still exist, he asked the price of Utopia and 1Z, and then he was like....choking on his beer when he heard it.

I let him try it on and he listens to it for 5 minutes, or finished his favorite song. He turned around and said, it is nothing more special than my S8 and stock Ears buds. It is not worth the money you just paid, and you are a fool to have done so. I was like, yeah, sure . A thought in my mind, yeah spending money going to the casino is very wise, and worthy....

You knows, the kind of personal preferences and hobby matter

 

[bana]

Happy to help Sony owes me

Thanks again for your tips.
Much appreciated!

 

[bana]

Woa, this Benk Glass protector is spot on, and fit like a gloves. I literally can not tell if it is on or not
Once again, thanks @kms108 for giving it to me, but most importantly, impressive research to have found such wonderful products that fit the 1Z like a gloves !

Where did you get that sticker? Thanks.

 

[Whitigir]

Where did you get that sticker? Thanks.

@kms108 for my stickers

 

[twister6]

If anybody is interested, I just posted a mini-review of Dignis leather cases for WM1Z/WM1A (MIDAS and Walkman models).

Here is a HF LINK, also mirrored on my blog.

 

[Whitigir]

Very nice ! The only thing I do not like is how the top being so opened. I will stick with my clear TPU case all day

Pardon my creepy hand

 

[kms108]

Very nice ! The only thing I do not like is how the top being so opened. I will stick with my clear TPU case all day

Pardon my creepy hand

Yep, I think they gone cheap on the design, how hard is it to make a leather flip closure at the top, instead, they give you a sticker to cover the top. Most of their DAP does not have the flip cover, I don't see how they can sell a case for protection, and it doesn't even cover it fully.